Jane Lapotaire

Jane Lapotaire

Born: December 26, 1944

Movies for Jane Lapotaire...

Title: The Burning Girls
Character: Joan Hartman
Released: October 19, 2023
Type: TV
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
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Smyrna
Title: Smyrna
Character: Filio Williams
Released: December 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
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Title: Dalgliesh
Character: Lady Lavinia
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: TV
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Granny
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: Movie
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Princess Alice
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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RSC Live: Henry V
Title: RSC Live: Henry V
Character: Queen Isobel
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. Laying claim to parts of France and following an insult from the French Dauphin, Henry gathers his troops and prepares for a war that he hopes will unite his country. Gregory Doran continues his exploration of Shakespeare's History Plays with Henry V performed in the 600th anniversary year of the Battle of Agincourt. Following his performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Alex Hassell returns as Henry V.
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Title: Lucan
Character: Susie Maxwell-Scott
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: TV
Belgravia, London, November 7th, 1974. Sandra Rivett, nanny of the aristocratic Lucan family, is found beaten to death. Shortly thereafter, the prime suspect, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, mysteriously disappears. When the manhunt begins, the subsequent scandal shakes the foundations of the British ruling class like never before.
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Lucan
Title: Lucan
Character: Susan Maxwell-Scott
Released: December 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
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Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Title: Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II
Character: Duchess of Gloucester
Released: November 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: Madame Belasco
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Windsor Castle: After the Fire
Title: Windsor Castle: After the Fire
Character: Narrator
Released: December 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Windsor Castle is a wonderful living example of the power and tradition of the Royal Family. For nearly 1,000 years it has stood as a symbol of the monarchy's strength, it is the largest working castle in the world and is still a cared for home of the Royal Family. But on one fateful day all that was threatened. On the morning of November 20th, 1992, fire broke out in the castle.It was a threat that nearly destroyed a building that centuries of warfare and change had not even dented. The blaze raced through state apartments, the Royal Chapel, St George's Hall, bedrooms and corridors, wiping out almost everything in its path. This is the story of that fire, as told by those who witnessed it and by those for whom Windsor Castle is a home. But it is also the amazing story of the astonishing effort that was made to restore the castle to its former glory and prove that there was life for Windsor Castle after the fire.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Princess Irina
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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Title: Eleventh Hour
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: TV
Professor Ian Hood is a former physics professor recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective and Jensen's Young is the companion bodyguard hired to protect Hood from the people who want to see his work put to an end.
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Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Title: Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Character: Ernestine Carter
Released: January 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere figure. In reality she was a deeply unconventional person with a profound passion for food, life and men.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Title: Broadway's Lost Treasures II
Character: Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")
Released: October 26, 2004
Type: Movie
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on opening night. This second compilation of great musical moments from the Tonys features another dazzling array of stars and performances. Hosts Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jerry Orbach introduce these one-of-a-kind performances and share their personal Broadway and Tony memories.
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Title: He Knew He Was Right
Character: Lady Milborough
Released: April 18, 2004
Type: TV
He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. It was directed by Tom Vaughan.
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Bella and the Boys
Title: Bella and the Boys
Character: Mrs. Rogers
Released: February 15, 2004
Type: Movie
13 years after Bella, Martin and Lee were there, the manager of their children's home is retiring and the home being shutdown. As they meet up together at a reunion/retirement celebration it sparks old memories of their time together at the home.
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Can't Stop Breathing
Title: Can't Stop Breathing
Character: Daisy
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A daughter struggles to care for a mother stricken with dementia.
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Title: There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
Character: Alice Brewer
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.
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Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Miriam
Released: April 30, 2000
Type: TV
Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to stall the sultan with a series of fantastic stories to ease the tension and stall her impending execution.
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Shooting Fish
Title: Shooting Fish
Character: Dylan's Headmistress
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
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Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Clara Van Trapp
Released: July 28, 1997
Type: TV
Comedy drama set during World War Two following the misadventures of two very different bandsmen - one an ex-air force pilot, the other a draft dodging, scheming private detective - as they get caught up with gangsters and romance in blitz torn London.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Mary Mohan
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: McCallum
Released: January 13, 1997
Type: TV
McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions. Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders. The character had romantic involvements with two of the other principal characters, Joanna, and later Angela. The last episode did not include McCallum and Angela as the story stated that they had taken jobs in America. They were replaced by Dr. Dan Gallagher and Dr. Charley Fielding.
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Title: Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Sarah (voice)
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: TV
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
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Surviving Picasso
Title: Surviving Picasso
Character: Olga Picasso
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
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Giving Tongue
Title: Giving Tongue
Character: Hilda Jacob
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she hunted as a teenager with friend Barb Gale. Matters are complicated when she rekindles her friendship with Barb, who still works for a hunt. The plot thickens further when it becomes aparent that the House of Lords is likely break with convention and block the bill, an event which the Prime Minister hopes to use for his own ends.
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Title: The Big Battalions
Character: Martha Hoyland
Released: November 19, 1992
Type: TV
The Big Battalions tells the story of three families, Christian, Muslim and Jewish, and moves between Britain, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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Title: Love Hurts
Released: January 3, 1992
Type: TV
Love Hurts is a British comedy-drama series that was broadcast from 3 January 1992 to 18 March 1994 on BBC1. It was scripted by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran and starred Adam Faith, Zoë Wanamaker and Jane Lapotaire as Frank Carver, Tessa Piggott and Diane Warburg, respectively.
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Title: Chillers
Character: Betsey McCullough
Released: April 14, 1990
Type: TV
Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature.
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Circles Of Deceit
Title: Circles Of Deceit
Character: Helen
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
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Murder on the Moon
Title: Murder on the Moon
Character: Louise Mackey
Released: May 9, 1989
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
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Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Madame de la Rougierre
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: TV
Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings
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The Master Builder
Title: The Master Builder
Character: Aline Solness
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of a young woman called Hilda stirs up memories and feelings with stories of a promise he made her many years ago.
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Title: Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
Character: Letizia Bonaparte
Released: November 10, 1987
Type: TV
Napoleon Bonaparte woos Josephine and makes her his empress.
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Title: Daytime Live
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: Anouk Khoori
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Madame de la Rougierre
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Maureen
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Eileen Jarvis
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Seal Morning
Character: Miriam Spencer
Released: March 9, 1986
Type: TV
In 1930s England, an orphaned girl and her lovely aunt raise an abandoned seal pup.
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Lady Jane
Title: Lady Jane
Character: Princess Mary
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
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Title: Playing Shakespeare
Released: July 29, 1984
Type: TV
John Barton holds a master class in how to play Shakespeare, using members of the RSC doing scenes, sonnets, and commentary as prime examples.
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Piaf
Title: Piaf
Character: Édith Piaf
Released: June 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
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To Catch a King
Title: To Catch a King
Character: Irene Neumann
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lady Macbeth
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
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Eureka
Title: Eureka
Character: Helen McCann
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: Movie
An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Title: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character: Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett
Released: December 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.
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Antony & Cleopatra
Title: Antony & Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra. In Antony's absence, Caesar and Lepidus worry about Pompey's increasing strength.
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The Search for Alexander the Great
Title: The Search for Alexander the Great
Character: Olympias
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Title: The Devil's Crown
Character: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Released: April 30, 1978
Type: TV
The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John.
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Title: Marie Curie
Character: Marie Curie
Released: August 16, 1977
Type: TV
BBC mini-series with Jane Lapotaire in the title role. The programme chronicles the work of scientific pioneer Marie Curie as she conducts her research into radioactivity, makes the famous discovery of Radium and wins Nobel Prizes for both Physics and Chemistry. The programme also looks at key events that affected the soon-to-be famous revolutionary including the devastating death of her husband (Nigel Hawthorne) and her subsequent controversial affairs.
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Kim
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A lesbian artist creates a love triangle when she moves in with a closeted teenage girl and the man in her pre-arranged heterosexual marriage.
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Title: One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Character: Miss Prescott
Released: July 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
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The Asphyx
Title: The Asphyx
Character: Christina Cunningham
Released: December 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
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Title: The Edwardians
Released: November 21, 1972
Type: TV
It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".
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Title: Crown Court
Character: Juliet Tomlin
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: TV
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
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On Call
Title: On Call
Character: Jean
Released: October 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Elly
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Title: Van der Valk
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Title: Antony and Cleopatra
Character: Charmian
Released: March 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.
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Stocker's Copper
Title: Stocker's Copper
Character: Alice Stocker
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: Movie
In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is forced to take in one of the policemen as a lodger. They soon become friends, but escalating tension at the mine means that conflict will become inevitable.
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Title: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Emily Shaw
Released: September 20, 1971
Type: TV
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
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Title: Jason King
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!
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Title: Play for Today
Character: Kim
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
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Performance
Title: Performance
Character: Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1970
Type: Movie
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
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Crescendo
Title: Crescendo
Character: Lillianne
Released: June 7, 1970
Type: Movie
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. She contacts his widow whose mental deterioration, precipitated by the death of her husband, manifests itself in psychotic dementia. The young woman's arrival triggers an obsessive desire to marry her crippled son to Susan, ensuring by this union that the genius of the father will be passed on to future generations.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.